Re: [racket-dev] Racket 5.3 pre-release impressions?

2012-07-29 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Thanks, Doug. From talking with a few people, it sounds like 5.3 is shaping up pretty normally for a release, and the releases have been high-quality. I was just a little spooked by running into two bugs very quickly (two points determine a line, after all), but I haven't found any since

[racket-dev] Racket 5.3 pre-release impressions?

2012-07-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Regarding Racket 5.3, I am more cautious than I recall being about a previous Racket minor version release. The information I have so far is mixed, rather that overwhelmingly reassuring. If anyone has comments on their sense of 5.3 reliability at this point, that might help me. Some good

Re: [racket-dev] Racket 5.3 pre-release impressions?

2012-07-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
FWIW, I just tested 16 or so additional PLaneT packages in DrRacket 5.3 pre-release, and no problems. Neil Van Dyke wrote at 07/28/2012 02:56 PM: Regarding Racket 5.3, I am more cautious than I recall being about a previous Racket minor version release. The information I have so far is

Re: [racket-dev] Racket 5.3 pre-release impressions?

2012-07-28 Thread Doug Williams
I've tried all of my packages and had one major snag that Matthew thinks he has fixed. For my large simulations, it seems to execute faster, but that is just an impression. Many of them are actually constrained by quick and dirty plots that may be rendering tens or hundreds of thousands of points.